hperrin
@hperrin@lemmy.ca
- Comment on You got it, buddy 23 hours ago:
Where are the minor lips?
- Comment on Riot will let gambling companies sponsor League Of Legends and Valorant esports teams 2 days ago:
Disgusting.
- Comment on Home surveillance set up 3 days ago:
I have all Reolink cameras and they’re awesome. They have both indoor and outdoor cameras. They’re really expensive compared to other similar cameras, but the software is really good, and there’s no subscription. You don’t even need to log in. Everything is only stored locally, on either SD cards in the camera or a separate “home hub” (or both).
The way I have them set up is every indoor camera is plugged into a smart outlet that disconnects their power through Home Assistant when either me or my wife are home.
The outdoor ones are connected to solar power, so I didn’t even have to run any wires.
I’d highly recommend them.
- Comment on How can websites verify unique (IRL) identities? 1 week ago:
Safe, yeah. Private, no. If you want to verify whether a user is a real person, you need very personally identifiable information. That’s not ever going to be private.
The best you could do, in theory, is have a government service that takes that PII and gives the user a signed cryptographic certificate they can use to verify their identity. Most people would either lose their private key or have it stolen, so even that system would have problems.
The closest to reality you could do right now is use Apple’s FaceID, and that’s anything but private. Pretty safe though. It’s super illegal and quite hard to steal someone’s face.
- Comment on Oranges? In this economy? 1 week ago:
Finally!! My lemon mortar cannon has a purpose!! I told my wife I would need it one day!! Now to find the old man’s route and set up in a hidden bush. It’s diesel powered, so I’ll have to be far enough away he doesn’t hear me warming up the engine.
- Comment on As ChatGPT Linked to Mental Health Breakdowns, Mattel Announces Plans to Incorporate It Into Children's Toys 1 week ago:
Imagine not only does your search engine tell you to eat rocks and glue, but your Barbie does too!
- Comment on For the first time, social media overtakes TV as Americans’ top news source 1 week ago:
Social media is not a news source.
- Comment on Is it weird I sleep with an old blanket I've had since I was a young girl? 1 week ago:
That’s not weird in the sense that it’s unusual, because that’s so usual we have a term for it. And it’s really only weird if you consider it weird. There’s nothing wrong with finding comfort in a familiar object.
I personally have a Game Boy Color my dad gave to me when I was recovering from surgery when I was 11. I keep it on my TV stand. I was incredibly distraught when I pulled it out of storage and the batteries in it had leaked all over the circuit board, damaging the board beyond repair. My dad actually got me another one on eBay that I harvested the circuit board from to replace mine. I don’t play it, but knowing that it now works and I could play it if I wanted to gives me comfort. I even put the old board in the other Game Boy just so I know that I still have all of the original parts.
I think it’s probably something most of us do, and I don’t think you should feel any shame in it.
- Comment on You fell off man, get better memes 1 week ago:
- Comment on TCL releases new Palm Vein Smart Lock in the US 2 weeks ago:
There is a 100% chance some dude is going to set this thing to only unlock from seeing his dick.
(It’s because that’s me, that’s what I’m going to do with it.)
- Comment on Why do fancy cars look fancy and cheap cars don't? Can't you just slap a Lamborghini-style chassis onto a lawnmower engine if you want? 2 weeks ago:
Check out the new Corvette.
- Comment on Looking for the perfect 5 year anniversary gift? 3 weeks ago:
And a partridge in a pear tree!
- Comment on Scientists in Japan develop plastic that dissolves in seawater within hours 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, fair enough. That’s a great point. I will update my opinion of this advancement.
- Comment on Scientists in Japan develop plastic that dissolves in seawater within hours 3 weeks ago:
The catch is that it’s useless in most plastics applications, where you really don’t want it to dissolve easily. Probably more catches, but that’s the one I see right away.
- Comment on Scientists in Japan develop plastic that dissolves in seawater within hours 3 weeks ago:
You see the thing is, the point of plastic is that it doesn’t dissolve easily. I can see this having some niche applications, but this won’t be replacing most plastics any time soon.
- Comment on Most American headline 3 weeks ago:
You wanna eat?
You want to eat?
No more parents!
- Comment on Can deliberate noise harassment still be a crime if it's done every day from 7:30 AM till 10:30-11:30 PM? 3 weeks ago:
Get like eight to ten shitty things delivered to his house every day. Either something he’ll have to pay for like a pizza, or something just completely useless, like a cheap spare part for something he doesn’t have.
Obviously, use his name and don’t use your real phone number. He’ll have to deal with all the trash constantly.
Won’t really solve your issue, but it’s good revenge for him being an asshole.
- Comment on Does anyone use a phone without a protective case? 3 weeks ago:
My friend Greg does. I don’t get it.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
The problem is that it’s a common suffix among all of their passwords. That kind of thing is easy to search for in a password leak database.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
It’s probably not safe if they use that for everything. Someone could match emails and password suffixes, then they’d only have four letters to brute force. So all it takes is two leaks that your friend is on and he’s at real risk.
Generally, this would be avoided by whatever site storing their passwords as hashes instead of in plain text, but you can’t rely on that.
They should just use a password manager.
- Comment on Avocado 3 weeks ago:
Are they flipping out because that’s ridiculous and false?
- Comment on A postal worker in Harlem attacked a trans woman. She fought back and fatally stabbed him in self-defense. This is how the NY Post framed it. 3 weeks ago:
You gotta mention that the innocent bystanders are straight, or else conservatives won’t know whether to feel sorry for them or be happy they were attacked.
- Comment on For the second time in my life, I'm going to eat soap.😋 4 weeks ago:
I’ve never understood why people want the excrement from attractive people. Regardless of where it came from, it’s still excrement.
(I’m considering gray water as excrement.)
- Comment on Microsoft Shifts Xbox Gaming Handheld Ambitions to Third-Party Windows Handhelds, Postpones 2027 Launch Plans 4 weeks ago:
Cool. I’ll just be over here happily playing my Steam Deck.
- Comment on "Official" Russian Military game depicting invasion of Ukraine released on Steam as Yunarmy propaganda 4 weeks ago:
Play it just to sabotage my own teammates.
- Comment on Is this incest? 4 weeks ago:
Welp, that’s enough internet for today. Bye, everybody.
- Comment on Minio strips away almost all features from OSS interface and suggests people use their paid "AIStor" service instead 4 weeks ago:
That’s the thing though, free social media was giving them massive returns. But the line must go up. And once they completely saturated the market, there are only two ways to make the line go up: expand the market (give Internet to communities that didn’t have it), or extract more money from your existing users (enshittify). Facebook made a half assed attempt at the first one for a couple years, then pivoted hard to the second.
- Comment on Minio strips away almost all features from OSS interface and suggests people use their paid "AIStor" service instead 4 weeks ago:
It’s simpler, there is a client for everything even mobile phones, it has a move command, it has props that can be edited without a copy command, pagination is however you set it up to be rather than a one size fits all approach, it can be just as scalable as S3 if you build it to be, it has much simpler locks that make them easier to use so you might actually use them.
That’s just the protocol level. The biggest benefit for me isn’t really at the protocol level, but part of the design of my own WebDAV server: deduplication. I can throw the same file into my server with 50 different keys, and it will only take up the space of one copy on disk. This basically moved the logic of deduplication from my application to the blob store. Mountains easier from an application design perspective.
- Comment on There were probably some people who just really liked "Never gonna give you up" and really enjoyed getting rick rolled 4 weeks ago:
Yes, hi, hello. Feel free.
- Comment on Minio strips away almost all features from OSS interface and suggests people use their paid "AIStor" service instead 4 weeks ago:
I’ve completely switched away from using Minio (and just the S3 protocol in general) in all of my projects.
I’ve found that the WebDAV protocol is better for object storage in almost every case. It’s also way simpler to use and understand.
Now it’s time for me to shill:
I wrote my own WebDAV server called Nephele. It’s free and open source, and you can run it on Docker. Probably doesn’t help if you’re using something that requires S3, but if you’re building something, I implore you to migrate away from S3.